Re: the bad surgeon

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In a message dated 8/23/01 5:26:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

duodenalswitch writes:

<< I can understand you not wanting to reveal the surgeon as he/she

has a support group and probably many devotees (even among us,

perhaps). >>

I don't think so. With all the comments on this board about how many

surgeries different surgeons have done, I have not seen us comment on anyone

who only did 13 surgeries. Except for the one Dr. who did only 2 that we

knew of.....Anyway, I am very concerned now that people are going to start

speculating that is might be Dr. so and so and it probably isn't at all.

Just check how many surgeries your surgeon has done and if its over 13, he

isn't the guy.

Remember, this woman asked him in the meeting how many DS he had done.

Instead of being honest THEN (and saying NONE) he looked at his list (of

names) and said " by the time I get to You, I WILL HAVE done 13. " Sounds to

me like the day she asked him, he had done ZERO. I wonder how the other 12

turned out?

The guy doesn't even KNOW what he is doing obviously.

He didn't even have the 100 behind him that was discussed on this list. I

doubt he even watched the " training video " (tounge in cheek) that was also

discussed on this list.

The real benefit from this is to realize that we are LUCKY to have a list

like this that keeps us informed as to who the experienced surgeons in this

field are. I feel sorry for the people " off line " who walk into a Dr. office

for WLS and get told about DS and get signed up and have no clue to even ask

if there is any experience behind this surgeon.

It also bears thinking about that if DS catches on, more and more Drs are

going to decide to do the procedure to make the bucks. I just hope they

learn HOW to do it before they start operating.

This Dr. sounds like your typical arrogant surgeon - probably young, just out

of medical school - probably didn't even do RNY before deciding to do DS.

The ONLY GOOD thing they did was get the patient to a Dr. who knew what he

was doing before she died, but they sure waited long enough to do it. She

has a great law suit against him, with the backing up of her records and

sucessful surgery with Dr. Hess.

She SHOULD persue it to prevent this guy from killing any more people.

However, it is probably things like this that make insurance companies

nervous, too and make them think DS is bad. It isn't the DS that it is bad,

it is surgeons who don't know what they are doing.

AND if anyone IS on his list talking about what a great Dr. he is, they also

should know what the heck is really doing out there.

AGAIN, tho, I DOUBT it is any of the surgeons we are talking about here.

I doubt any of us have ever even heard his name.

Carole